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'1. F. CULVERWELL. STORAGE CABINET FOR PHONOGRAPHIC DISK RECORDS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC-18.1915.

Patented July 29, 1919.

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J. F. CULVERWELL. STORAGE CABLNET FOR PHONOGRAPHIC DISK RECORDS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 18. I915. 1,3 1 1 ,322. Patented Jul M, 1919 2 SHE ETS- 2.

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J'OS EPH-F. CULVERWELL, OF WASHINGTON. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO LOUIS G. JULIHN, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

STORAGE-CABINET FOR PHONOGRAIPHIC DISK RECORDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 29, 1919.

Application filed December 18, 1915. Sen'a1No.67,559.

This invention relates to a novel storage cabinet for phonograph disk records.

'The object of the invention is to construct a record cabinet in which storage space will be economized, the records properly protected and their individual selection and removal facilitated.

It may be stated, by way of premise, that the proper protection, economical storage and convenient selection of disk records has presented problems, to which considerable thought has been directed. The well known method of storing these records in books, requires the individual selection of the book, the handling thereof and subsequently the removal of the record and the reversal of this inconvenient operation to restore the record after its use. A simple mode is the storage of the records in individual vertical compartments with their peripheries projecting sufficiently to enable them to be grasped by the operator and withdrawn. This, while a distinct improvement, is not economical in the matter of storage space,

because the records must be spaced sufii ciently to enable each record to be readily grasped. An attempt to avoid this wide spacing of the records has been made by providing various forms of ejecting devices by means of which any one of aseries of closely spaced coaxial records may be projected suliiciently to enable the operator to grasp its edge and complete its withdrawal.

My invention is directed to a novel storage cabinet allowing an arrangement of the records which, while permitting them to be stored in" comparatively close relation. will expose a portion of the edge ofeach record in comparatively widely spaced relation to the next adjacent coaxial record, so that any desired record may be readily selected, grasped and withdrawn without sacrificing storage space, and without the necessity for em loying ejecting mechanism.

n the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the cabinet herein described, parts being broken away.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the cabinet. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a portion of the cabinet. I

Fig. 4.- is a perspective view of a group of details of the cabinet, the parts being separated to more clearly show the construction. In the accompanying drawings is shown a cabinet, 1. having an open front, 2, and having its top and bottom walls, 3 and 4, formed with grooves, or kerfs, 5, for the reception of sheet metal or other partitions, 6. Each partition has cut and bent from its rear edge a buffer and spacer lug, 7. which forms a stop for a record. X, and contacts with an adjacent partition. These lugs are disposed in three groups to accommodate the three groups of records located between the partitions. The records of the intermediate and upper groups are carried by longitudinally inclined supporting flanges, 8, cutand bent from the partitions and serving also as spacers while the records of the lowest group are supported by the bottom, 4, of the cabinet. which is provided with spaced upstanding portions, 4:. having their upper faces inclined downwardly to the rear to facilitate all records in the same vertical plane since they all rest against the spacer lugs, 7, and will cause a portion of each record to project beyond the peripheries of the two next adjacent records and thus enable it to be grasped and easily removed fromthe cabinet.

As will be seen by reference to Figs. 2 and 3, .the records, while arranged in a closely spaced series, economizing storage space, have each a well defined accessible grasping ,portion separated from the two next laterally adjacent grasping portions of other records by intervals equal to the distance between alternate records of the series. Stated dii ferently, the series of stored records is divided into three groups, the records of each group being twice as Widely spaced for handling as the records of the series are spaced for storage. To facilitate the com- The basic thought, underlying this invention, may be fully comprehended by reference to Figs. 2 and 3 and obviously is fundamental to a wide variety of modification of the instrumentalities whereby the records may be closely stored, yet widely spaced for handling.

It is only essential that the records be held separated completely and certainly and that their arrangement be such that each individual record may be made more accessible for handling than is purposed by. the lateral spacing of adjacent records.

\Vhat I claim is:

1. A phonographic record cabinet having three series of individual disk record supports, each series of supports being arranged in a horizontal plane different from the horizontal planes in which the other two seriesports thus aveanged, each record will have clined record supports, the supports on adjacent partitions being located indifferent horizontal planes, and backstopping means for the records, whereby phonographic disk records accommodated betweenthe partitions and supported by the bottom thereof, and by the supports will be arranged in three series, with each of the individual records of each series having a grasping portion non-coincident with the grasping portions of the records of any other series and spaced from the adjacent records of the same series by intervals, each of which JOSEPH F. CULVERWELL.

Witness R. M. PARKER. 

